I wouldnt worry to much, this decision will turn around and bite Mr Habib and his friends in the backside one day..Hope they are just as eager to cut ties with USA universities that do work for the US army. Oh no, dont think so - scared of losing their visas and lucrative work opportunities. But anyway, they will always have their clean water. They live off the sweat of others.

I feel that this is absolutely ridiculous, why have the SA university cut ties with a university that have been working together for a long time because they can't find a palestinian partner to work with. There is a major situation going on off course it will be difficult to find a palestinian partner willing to work with Israeli's. Shouldn't stop them from carrying on their collaborations.

I grew up in Joburg and lived there until I was 25. My family are still there. I have never even heard of the University of Johannesburg! If it was UCT or Wits, I'd be concerned, but this must be a really small insignificant "university".

The place is full of Leftist traitors. All funding should be cut off until the administrators & the Leftist professors are fired.
They deserve to be boycotted since so many of their tenured professors support a boycott of the country that pays their salaries.
As a matter of fact, many donors have already dropped Ben Gurion.
And we shouldn't forget the Leftist professors charged with sexual harrassment with their students, long covered up by the administators.

"a landmark moment in the growing boycott" – nothing new here.
Let’s see... no "Muslim" university has ties with Israel except for Universities and educational institutions in the Palestinian Authority territories.
UJ, another "Muslim led (Habib and many chancellors & students)" institution has cut ties with this world renowned Israeli University... there is no surprise here...
South Africa will lose immensely from these, and I am not talking about water... I am talking about credibility... from Harvard to Oxford, from the US to France... when a religion dictates the rules of engagement (like in most of Arab world) then credibility and especially education suffers.
South Africa tagging along to the long drop to the 13th century… I must highlight this point… this will hurt both parties, but mostly us here in Jozi

Until the super friendly government of Obama came into power Professor Habib wasn't allowed into the US of A the last few years for his political views . It is a pity that Israel bashing takes a front seat to projects that can truly help his country, but that is what blind hatred does. It consumes the ignorant!

BGU sowed the seeds of Boycotts and anti Israel criticism in the world and now is a victim of their own making. Now is BGU's time to fight back and make amends tell the University of Jo Berg to take a hike and BDU stop support of Pro BDS academics

I wouldn't lose too much sleep over the SA universitiy's decision. It's their loss. They need BGU. It's not the other way round. It's funny thought to read their reasons for the severing of ties because BGU is prepared to cooperate with the palistinians. It's the palestinians who don't want to cooperate with BGU.

Desmond Tutu and his anti-Isarel friends in RSA are totally dishonest. They know full well that the apartheid regime survived as long as it did thanks to oil shipments form the Islamic world--but they never utterred a peep --but continually, to this day, have bated Israel. See, for example, articles that appered in the 1980s: Middle East Review, Fall 1986, page 38--and The New Republic, Feb. 10, 1986, page 10.

Who cares? Next will be Somaly University or University of West Sahara. What kind of science in these institution if couple of years ago official government policy was that AIDS not an infectious disease?

Who cares: The University of Johannesburg has been a 3rd rate institution for a number of years already. Many of the established international recruiters as well as the larger multinationals have had no choice but to try and avoid their graduates due to low standards.
South Africans are increasingly left with limited choices (i.e. University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch) and the "wealthy" are increasingly seeking a more internationally recognized qualifications in Europe and Australia.

Such a shame that politics is first instead of academical excellence. Here small SA people goes again and thinks that wayward measures can still work. Look at Libya, Egypt etc - people are not unaware anymore and it is something OF THE PAST. Please wake up and realize we are informed and can not be fooled by such hypocrisy. And thankfully the world out there is not stupid.

from a University that was created to incorporate third rate apartheid era institutions, or from people who still murder and mutiliate babies for medicine, for heaven's sake, but talk of Israeli abuse of human rights, not to mention rape being the national sport there... Let their water stink and their academic record sink even lower than it already is. The academic institutions there are well below world standards and it's a country sinking in its own mire of corruption, crime and reverse racism. So should we care? Hardly.

If youo look up the school rattings you find that all the Israel schools are in the top 500 then look at the South Afaican schools and you will see none. Look at the top 1000, none there either. You have to go out to 5000 to find one. The ask why Professor Habib is not allowed into the US. If I was the University of Johannesburg I would have tried to keep this out of the news and hide my head.

of academicians who tell the world how unjust their native land (Israel) is, demonize Israel in foreign quarters and even advocate boycotting Israel and all Israeli institutions (see isracampus.org.il for a complete descriptor of anti-Israeli polemics and articles by Israeli professors) including the hated Neve Gordon have finally had their wishes met. I take some delight in that. BGU must come to terms with the fact that their professors were, and are, a large cause of the boycotting of their own employer (BGU).